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What is a Driller?
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Jeanie | Report | 15 Oct 2004 15:58 |
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Great site: found out that a Stubber worked m/c to prepare cotton for spinning. Though an iron puddler, puddled iron!! LOL |
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Geoff | Report | 15 Oct 2004 12:22 |
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Gwyneth Thanks for that Dando site - some nice pics! I had imagined that (if such equipment had existed in those days) it would have been of more Brunel-esque proportions. |
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Sprack | Report | 15 Oct 2004 10:06 |
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maybe its something to do with drilling seeds, just a thought. jenny x |
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Gwyn in Kent | Report | 15 Oct 2004 09:14 |
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I beg to differ, Geoff. See 'History of Dando' which tells of work in 1860s after a cholera outbreak. |
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Geoff | Report | 15 Oct 2004 08:45 |
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I would strongly doubt that wells were drilled in the 19th century. I found a "drill master" once - I assumed that was drilling in the military sense. |
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Murky | Report | 15 Oct 2004 04:07 |
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Definately a "Driller" - the writing is pretty clear. Mark |
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John | Report | 15 Oct 2004 03:05 |
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Could the writing be "DRIVER"? |
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Murky | Report | 15 Oct 2004 00:28 |
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Unfortunately I don't have access to the 1861 Shropshire census and I have no idea which area of Shropshire he may have been in at that time (his son was listed as being in Atcham on his wedding cert). By 1871 he was living in Bridgnorth as a pub landlord - so he had evidently got tired of "drilling" and was in to drinking! |
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Gwyn in Kent | Report | 15 Oct 2004 00:13 |
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Can you find him on 1861 census and see if that gives a clue? If he was drilling wells , good luck. He could have been flitting round another part of the country. We have well borers or 'Artesian well engineer' listed as occupations and they seemed to work anywhere in UK. |
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Murky | Report | 15 Oct 2004 00:01 |
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Thanks for the link John - alas no Driller listed but a useful site to bookmark. The guy was living in Atcham, Shropshire at the time - I don't think it was a particularly industrialized area. |
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Paul | Report | 14 Oct 2004 23:58 |
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The area they lived in might give a clue. Was it a mining area, agricultural, engineering, or whatever? Paul |
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John | Report | 14 Oct 2004 23:56 |
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http://www.gendocs.demon.co.uk/trades.html....this site will probably tell you John |
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Murky | Report | 14 Oct 2004 23:45 |
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On one of my relatives marriage certificates from 1864, his fathers profession is listed as "A driller". Does anyone know what this profession was? Did he drill wells or pipes? Or did he use a seed driller on a farm - or some other job? Mark |
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